The Osceola times., 1887-09-10
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS,

Ella Fayer was shot and seriously
sounded at Harrisburg q few days ago
by a tie-maker named John Pagget. IL
appears that the two became engaged in
an alteration, exchanging but q few
words, when Pagget drew revolver and
fired two shots in rapid succession, ths
first shot only taking effect, striking over
the eye and glsncing fractured the skull.
Pagget disappeared snd has not since
been heard from.
Sheriff Worthen, OF Pulaski County, who
has worked for three years vainly en-.
deavoring to capture Frank Klein, one Of
the despersdoes who robbed the Valley
Route passenger train, near Little Rock,
publishes ell he has been able TO learn
about the man, believing its general circu-
la.ion may lead 10 his apprehension. lie
is known in different places as G. +. Little,
Frank Ayers, John kountzs and Frank
Klein, aud his true name is Hous-
ton. His brother lives at Cam.
den, Ind, where he runs black
smith shop. His fathers name is
Ludwell q. Houston. and his residence
! Mount Vernon, III. Klein Is reported to
have killed several officers in Dakota, and
Sheriff Worthen's persistent efforts to
capture him have developed the fact that
he is wanted for various crimes in dozen
different places. He is desper.
ate man, and decidedly reckless, occa-
sionally dropping a letter to sons officer
or newspaper in Little Rock. He is be-
lieved at this time TO be in California. He
is twenty EIGHT years of age, blue eyes,
dsrk-brown hair, thin face, jaws broken,
and face and neck SCARED by bullets.
The recent Confederate reunion on this
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was great success. The drive from Gar.
field OF five miles over the mountains in
wagons vas rough, but made interesting
by passing aud viewing numerous points
where the tide of conflict ebbed and flow ID.
Elkhorn tavern still bears the histori, al
horns, and one hundred yards southwo It
Of il is the monument erected by the citi.
zens Of Benton County to the three Con
federate Generals. Ii is a neat, unpre
tending shaft Of marble with granite ped.
estal.
Ben Clark, drummer for u Dardauelle
marble house, while driving In buggy
| out near Jennings Falls, Yell County, a
few days ago, ran into horse on which
were two little boys named Oldham. The
horse became frightened and threw the
boys, instantly killing one and break ing
| Tue uThl VI tut otueT. Nidih WIS arrested
and will be tried for criminal carelessness.
The latest posters gotten out for the Ar.
kansas Exposition are beautiful and at
tiact.ye. They are being distributed all
over .Lo United States.
A great and continuously increa sing in.
tereat IN Arkansas is reported among the
Northern people, and hundreds will visit
this State when the Exposition opens.
There are at present eight fruit distil.
leries in operation in this State, turning
| ont brandes and wines.
Sportsmen should remember that the
quail season is not open until the lst Of
October. SO II they see a quail perched on
the antlers of a buck they must not
shoot 1t.
| The cotton crop of this State Is reported
at ten per cent. below what IL was last
year. If that is all the State will boom
there will be as much made as can be
gathered.
The firm of Nunseshumer & Klein, the
largest wholesale dealers in general mer-
chandise at Texarkana, has been closed
by creditors on attachments aggregating
$4,000. The principal creditors are in
Texas, Mississippi and Cincinnati. They
claim to be solvent. A. Goldberg, a cloth.
ing merchant, was also closed on attach.
ments aggregatng $1,000.
| W. c. Schierry was taken IN from Clay
| County to Little Rock few days ago by
Deputy United States Marshal Faulkn-
bury, charged with violation of the reven.
| ue laws by selling liquor without paying
the special tax. He was examined by
| Commissioner Waters and held To await
| the action of the October term Of the
United States Court in the sum of $500.
And now the sorghum crop is being
| worked up. The farmers in the upper end
| Of Pulaski County have made large crops
Of this product. Samples of the sorghum
made by Mr.. Andrew White, Of that Sec
| tion, are rs clear as honey and well
favored thus showing that good syrup
can be made of sorghum.
| The cheering sight Of nice, clean, new
bales of cotton is beginning to gladden. the
hearts Of the merchants in the various
towns, and the enterprising farmers who
pick out early are getting fair price for
IL, besides the regular premiums offered by
all of our merchants to their customers.
As the procession was vending its way
10 the Little Hock cemetery to
lay 10 rest Mrs. Stockings, Of
that city, few days ago, the
morse driven by Mrs. Wallace, a relative OF
tho deceased, became frightened and ran
away. Mrs. Wallace lost her reason, and
in her efforts 10 jump ont of the flying ve-
hicle was thrown TO the ground, falling
on her face and shoulders, which were
mangled in a horrible manner, the right
shoulder being dislocated and the left
| arm broken. The horse made a kindling
wood of the buggy and received serious
bruises before he was finally stopped The
injured woman was taken home and was
in a critical state.
One &. A. Robertson recently borrowed
sufficient printing material of the Para
gould Press to make a show of starting n
newspaper at Corning, Clay County. He
set up the advertisements and locals, got
some job work done at the Press office for
other persons, collected on same, shipped
the type to Corning, pawned It at the
Corning Hotel for "hash," then ''folded
his tent. like the Arab, and silently stole
away" Robertson is a small man, about
thirty years old. "sloyenly" in appear.
ancc, and has scar on his right arm.
The Memphis & Little Rock railroad and
rs connections with the Iron Mountain
were resold few days ago for $2,s0O, 600,
X. X. Dow, of New York, being the pur-
chaser. The disposal was a mere matter
of form, as the property had to be sold
under a decree in favor of the State for an
old mortgage.
The Little Rock PAYERS were or strike.
Mat Wallace. a brakeman on the Arkan-
sas Valley road, was thrown from freight
train by rafter while crossing a bridge